Museum outing

Tom and I recently decided to start going on monthly dates. The idea is to get out of our normal routine by doing something fun and different together. This month Tom decided to take me to the Natural History Museum in London. What a great idea I thought! Especially as it’s been ages since I’ve been to a museum, and entry is free.

We took the train up around 1pm giving us an afternoon to explore all that is inside the museum. Guess what we explored… rocks, lots and lots of rocks. It is the Natural Histroy Museum after all, and we entered by the earth zone. It was cool though. One section had cases full of beautiful gems, some jewellery collections which I really enjoyed. We learned all about diamonds as well, along with many other much less interesting minerals.

I enjoyed the ecology section that showed growth and decay, and although we rushed through it at the end I think Tom liked the Darwin area. The monkeys were cute. I couldn’t help but be amazed by the giant Brontosaurus skeleton at the main entrance.

The best exhibit by far in both of our opinions was the Wildlife Photographer of the Year. You are supposed to pay extra to see this exhibit, but lucky for us Amex is a museum sponsor so employees and guests get in for free. Almost all of the images were incredible. One of my favourites was taken by a fourteen year old boy from Scotland that showed a small pretty bird among pink flowers. I also enjoyed the black and white image of giraffes in the vast desert. My descriptions definitely aren’t doing the images justice. Take my word for or visit the online gallery, they’re impressive.

After a few hours we’d had our fill of the educational experience. We wandered out into London town and soon came to Harrods which of course we had to browse through. Trust me Tom wanted to go too, I think mainly to awe at the food halls. We ended up running into one of his school friends working there and stopped for a chat. By this time hunger had set in. We found a grill house and enjoyed some ribs and roast chicken before exhaustedly catching our train home.

Excellent idea Tom, and thank you. I thoroughly enjoyed the date.

Love